It is 2 years since she took to a catwalk for the Bermuda Fashion Festival, but Aliana’s professional modelling career kicked off after.

Speaking on her career, Aliana said; “The thing with me is I’m 5ft 4 and models usually start at 5ft 9.

“I never thought this could happen to me. I enjoyed doing it in Bermuda and was satisfied with that because I didn’t think I was tall enough, or even good enough, to go any further in modelling. I wasn’t very confident at all in school; I was definitely teased a lot. It’s funny but the things that make me different as a model are what I was teased about: my sharp jaw structure — they would call me a lizard. My hair is big and kinky and I had long pigtails and they would yank them like a horse.

“The things that make me proud of me now, were things that I hated before because of how I was treated. Modelling helped me understand that you’re beautiful no matter what you look like. Things I thought were bad were actually my best features and I gained that confidence through modelling.“

Aliana, who graduated from the Bermuda Institute, has series of modelling contract in her name.